Carpet-stretcher



(No Model.)

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CARPET STRBIGEER,

"Patented Feb. 14 1,888.V

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UNITED STATES`l PATENT Omron.A

JOHN CARTER, OF EMPORIA, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS LEWIS,lOF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. A

CARPET-STR ETC H ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,847, dated February14, 1888.

l Application filed July i3, 1886. Serial No. 207.952. (No model.)

35 hinged.

io rect position for attachment to the floor; and

my invention consists in certain combinations, defined in my claims. l 4

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is aplan view, and

15 Fig. 2 a side elevation,of my improved carpetstretcher. j

The several parts may be made of any suitable material, but arepreferably formed of stout iron.

The bed-plate A is bifurcated and spread at one end, as shown, toaccommodate the grippingjaws B, and the ends ofthe arms a of thebifurcated end are turned down and sharpened to engage with the door.

The rear end of the bed-plate is provided with set-screws b, preferablyinclined, as shown, and pointed at their lower ends to engage with thedoor. One or more pointed fingers, c, may be secured to the bed-platebetween its ends,

3o to still furtherinsure a rm engagement with the door.

On the bed-plate A is mounted a standard, C, preferably consisting of apair of uprights, C C', betweenwhich the operating-lever D is Thegripping-jaws B are arranged between the arms a of the bed-plate andbetween the uprights C O. The upper jaw is formed with a bifurcatedhead, the arms d spreading, as shown, and united at their outer 4o endsby across-piece, d. 'The lower jaw is formed in a similar way, exceptthat it is provided with a series of upwardly-projecting -and to the endof the operating-lever. I. By this arrangement, when the lever D isdepressed,

the jaws will first be closed and will then be drawn toward the rear endof the bed-plate, thus stretching` the carpet. j

A pawl, Fis hinged to the short arm ofthe lever D, and its lower endengages with a toothed rack, f, onthe bed-plate A, and serves v to holdthe carpet in stretched. t

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the bifurcated bed plate,the standard, the gripping-jaws, the operating-lever hinged to thestandard, wand the links that connect the end of the operating-lever tothe gripping-jaws, substantially as set position when it is 2. Thecombination of the bifurcated bedplate having spreading anddownwardly-projecting arms a, the set-screws b at the rear end of thebed-plate, the uprights O, the operating-lever hinged thereto, thegripping-jaws, and the link-connections between the gripping-jaws andthe operating-lever, substantially'as set forth.

3. The combination of the bed-plate, the spreading arms a, the uprightsC', the operating-lever hinged thereto, the gripping-jaws arrangedbetween the uprights C and connected with the ope1ating-lever, the pawlF, and the toothed rack on the bed-plate, with which the pawl engages,substantially as set forth.

JOHN CARTER.

teeth, d2, adapted to pass into or through the Witnesses: edge of thecarpet. The teeth are preferably O. J. RUssELL, 45 arranged to enter theupper jaw behind the E. T. COX.

